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[Saram-61-97-kon]

And a question to the community: what does PTW mean (I'm not a native speaker)? I guess something like thank you, but I couldn't find the proper meaning for this abbreviation. Google told me that it means "poison the well"...

[Scruiser]

Saram-61-97-kon

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Are armor and weapon modifications (like thin, rectangular etc.) different from the unmodificated item? If yes, can you tell us what is changed? And what properties does the vault-clothing has?

Might want to spoiler that... since

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vaults and weapons modifications are part the new demon sites

  just to respect the few that like finding these things out for themselves.

And a question to the community: what does PTW mean (I'm not a native speaker)? I guess something like thank you, but I couldn't find the proper meaning for this abbreviation. Google told me that it means "poison the well"...

Posting to Watch (so any new posts to thread makes it come up in your feed of new responses).  Try Urban Dictionary next time you are looking for internet slang.

[therahedwig]

And a question to the community: what does PTW mean (I'm not a native speaker)? I guess something like thank you, but I couldn't find the proper meaning for this abbreviation. Google told me that it means "poison the well"...

Post to watch.

There's an option in the reply form to receive e-mail notifications for a thread when it updates.

However, you can also just hit 'Notify' and have the same effect without posting, and while I understand posting PTW to inform the original poster that they're interested inmthe content, I wish it weren't so... dry. Or incomprehensible. Two years ago people still wrote post to watch full out, I had to break my brain as well to remember the context.

[Saram-61-97-kon]

Thank you for your fast replies! And I've edited the spoiler into a spoiler.

[Keldane]

If I'm not mistaken, most people who 'post to watch' do so because once you've posted in a thread, new replies appear when you click "Show new replies to your posts". It's purely a matter of quickly tracking specific threads from a single screen, if I'm remembering correctly.

[monk12]

If I'm not mistaken, most people who 'post to watch' do so because once you've posted in a thread, new replies appear when you click "Show new replies to your posts". It's purely a matter of quickly tracking specific threads from a single screen, if I'm remembering correctly.

This. I'd rather not have my email spammed when people respond to threads I'm interested in, and I'd rather be able to hang out and check on them via the forum instead of in my email anyway.

[Rip0k]

PTW

[Silverionmox]

How are culture differences going to be handled?
Will different cultures within the same species, or different civilizations, have distinct behaviour? Will there be something else besides trained practices and probability range of personality traits? How will it matter for the AI? Will it be moddable, and if so, how and to which extent?

[Footkerchief]

How are culture differences going to be handled?
Will different cultures within the same species, or different civilizations, have distinct behaviour? Will there be something else besides trained practices and probability range of personality traits? How will it matter for the AI? Will it be moddable, and if so, how and to which extent?

DF Talk #5 focused on procedural cultures and cultural differences.

[cephalo]

Here's a question about off-screen historical resolution.

Are there major differences between the historical resolution that happens in world-gen and the historical resolution that happens in the calendar between games? If so, what are the biggest differences?

[Dirst]

Posting to Watch (so any new posts to thread makes it come up in your feed of new responses).  Try Urban Dictionary next time you are looking for internet slang.

Yeah, but even then there's context that might escape a non-native speaker.  When I first looked up PTW as a slang term, the Internet tried to tell me it means "pass the weed."

[Quietust]

A modding question:
Version 0.40 added GET_ITEM_DATA and ITEM_REACTION_PRODUCT so reactions can create different types of items depending on what material they're given. In previous versions, you could use GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:reagent:NONE to directly copy the material from a reagent (instead of specifying a MATERIAL_REACTION_PRODUCT), but using GET_ITEM_DATA:reagent:NONE appears to simply not produce an item - is this something that's supposed to work, or something that you weren't expecting anybody to do?

[Untelligent]

Man, that bugfix changelog's getting pretty tall.

[dree12]

Man, that bugfix changelog's getting pretty tall.

I like how Toady's fixing all these smaller issues. They're quick changes most of the time, and fixing them really adds to the game's polish. I'd rather 10 small bugs be fixed than one major big bug (unless the latter bug is gamebreaking, of which not many are left).

I'm especially looking forward to elven diplomats coming back in the coming version.

[Urist Da Vinci]

•stopped hyper-obese digesting dwarves from constantly recalculating insulation/mass data (UristDaVinci)

1. It is terrifying.

2. Actually Ag solved that bug - I had nothing to do with it: http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=5971

0005971: Fat dwarves eating causes lag
Wasted CPU can be expected to be on the order of 5-10%

Insert yo mama joke about gravitational time dilation here.